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October 24, 2025
By Roan Hollander Kathleen Quaintance is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art. As a historian of modern craft and technology, she studies transitions between...
October 17, 2025
“Maintaining Impermanence: Constructing Identity in the Philippines” opened this past Thursday in the Yale School of Architecture’s North Gallery. The exhibition was...
October 15, 2025
We are excited to announce that Zaya Delgerjargal’s film, Herders at the Edge, won Best Short Documentary at the Climate Film Festival in New York, the largest climate-...
September 17, 2025
  On Thursday, September 11th, Yale Environmental Humanities held a welcome back panel and reception to usher in a new academic year of environmental humanities events and...
September 11, 2025
Twelve Ph.D. students from across the humanities joined Yale this fall as the fifth cohort of Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellows in the Environmental Humanities. The...
August 29, 2025
The Fall 2025 film series Work/Place at the Whitney Humanities Center traces the cinematic relationship between labor and its environments, from salt mines and city streets...
August 29, 2025
The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology has launched a video interview series spotlighting alumni who work at the intersection of spiritual traditions and environmental...
August 29, 2025
The Fall 2025 “A History of Scientific Forestry: From Extraction to Ecosystem Management” webinar series organized by Yale Forest Forum will explore the history of “...
August 28, 2025
Yale’s Living Village, a state-of-the-art residential complex designed to give back to the natural environment more than it takes, has emerged as a key component of the Yale...
August 28, 2025
Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel and reception on Thursday, September 11th, at HQ 134. Panel discussion with Q&A: 4:00pm-5:00pm Panelists: ...
June 5, 2025
Last month, a group of twelve graduate students associated with Yale Environmental Humanities traveled from New Haven to northeastern Connecticut for an overnight retreat at...
May 13, 2025
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the six 2025 recipients of the Graduate Certificate in the Environmental Humanities sponsored by the Yale Graduate...
May 13, 2025
Yale News recently interviewed Allison Caplan (Assistant Professor of History of Art) and Marisa Bass (Professor of History of Art) on their co-organized February 28 workshop...
May 10, 2025
By Roan Hollander   Charlotte Hecht is a Ph.D candidate in American Studies at Yale. She is a researcher and writer who draws on interdisciplinary methods from cultural and...
April 27, 2025
By Roan Hollander   Community volunteers in the Newhallville neighborhood come out every Saturday morning from 10 am - 12 pm to steward the Shepard Street Vegetable Garden, a...
April 23, 2025
By Roan Hollander   Lucy Ruxi Zuo ‘26 is a senior in Hopper College majoring in the Architecture design track. She is passionate about spaces of collective care and healing....
April 22, 2025
2024 Environmental Humanities grantee Alberto Martinez Garcia and collaborator Andrea Molina Cuadro have organized a special walking tour and workshop around Newtown Creek,...
April 18, 2025
By Roan Hollander Delgerzaya Delgerjargal is a Climate Change Reporting Fellow at the Pulitzer Center, currently pursuing her master’s in environmental management at...
March 25, 2025
The Toynbee Prize Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Toynbee Prize is Sunil Amrith. Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan...
March 7, 2025
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is excited to announce the recipients of its 2025 Environmental Public Humanities Grants. The grant program supports projects...